{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-15/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The third, the Lemurian age, was reflected during the Egyptian age in the mood of its religion. The teaching of Osiris and Isis can be characterized from the most varied sides and points of view. But what is characteristic of this teaching is the following: In the ancient Lemurian age birth and death did not yet exist. At first, human beings repeated the condition in which they had been when the sun had not yet separated from the earth. At that time they were in a spiritual body. Then, when the sun was no longer united with the earth, they came to the point of having an air-like body; and then the human body was filled with a watery mist. Before the Lemurian age the human being was present only as mist and steam, barely distinguishable from what was flowing all around as mist or fog—changeable like the clouds, constantly changing forms in a way similar to the clouds of today. In these ancient times the human being was not yet altogether on the earth, but rather hovered above it. Pieces of this fine matter were constantly separating off and going away from human beings, welling up and flowing away from them. The condensation of human bodies into solid forms only occurred in the Lemurian age. What we call the succession of incarnations only began to appear with this condensation or “densification” of the human being. Only now are the bodily and soul aspects separated to such an extent that one can say human beings begin to regard the external as opposed to their inner life. Today we distinguish our inner and our outer being as the contradiction between our life of soul and the external world. In the age of the sun, human beings perceived the spiritual beings surrounding them as their external world. Then came the age of the separation of the moon. The external began to separate from the internal. In this way the difference between waking and sleeping arose. Human beings alternated between states when they were exposed to the sun and then were turned away from it. Then the time approached when the human being began to perceive objects on which the sun shone. At night the forces of the moon continually stimulated the life of the soul so that human beings distinguished a time when they perceived the external world and a state when they felt forces that worked through the moon and made them clairvoyant. Human beings said to themselves that through the spirituality that lived in the moon, they could perceive the spiritual world that was inwardly flowing into them through the forces of the moon. The forces of the moon were reflected sun forces that the spiritual world mediated to human beings, while the external world became increasingly perceptible to them during the day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II-VI","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-05-15","location":null,"word_count":473,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/104a/1909-05-15/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"James H. 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The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word.","evidence":"Teilnehmeraufzeichnungen von vier Vorträgen","evidence_translation":"Participants' records of four lectures","evidence_source":"Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 104a/1909-05-15/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Und das dritte, das lemurische Zeitalter spiegelt sich in der ägyptischen Zeit in der ganzen religiösen Anschauung. Man kann von den verschiedensten Seiten und Standpunkten die Lehre von Osiris und Isis charakterisieren. Das Charakteristischste an dieser Lehre aber war folgendes: In dem alten lemurischen Zeitalter waren Geburt und Tod noch gar nicht vorhanden. Der Mensch wiederholte zunächst den Zustand, in dem er gewesen war, als die Sonne sich noch nicht von der Erde getrennt hatte. Damals war er in einem geistigen Leibe. Dann, als die Sonne nicht mehr mit der Erde vereinigt war, brachte er es zu einem luftartigen Leibe; dann aber wurde der Menschenleib mit wäßrigen Dünsten erfüllt. Vor der lemurischen Zeit war die menschliche Wesenheit nur als Dunst und Dampf vorhanden, kaum unterscheidbar von dem, was da als Dunst oder Nebel durcheinanderflutete, wie Wolken wandelbar, gleich den heutigen Wolken sich fortwährend wandelnd. Es war also in diesen alten Zeiten der Mensch überhaupt noch nicht auf der Erde, sondern über der Erde schwebend. Stücke von dieser feinen Materie gingen fortwährend von dem Menschen weg, quollen aus ihm hervor. Eine Verdichtung der Menschenleiber trat erst in der lemurischen Zeit ein. Damit, daß sich der Mensch verdichtete, trat erst das ein, was man die aufeinanderfolgenden Inkarnationen nennt. Erst da trennt sich das Seelische und Leibliche so, daß man sagen kann, der Mensch fängt an, das Äußere als einen Gegensatz zu seinem Inneren zu betrachten. Heute unterscheidet der Mensch sein Inneres und sein Äußeres als den Gegensatz zwischen Seelenleben und Außenleben. In der Sonnenzeit der Erde hatte der Mensch als Außenwelt das wahrgenommen, was es als geistige Wesenheit in seiner Umgebung gab. Jetzt kam die Zeit der Mondentrennung; da begann das Äußere sich vom Inneren zu trennen. So trat der Unterschied auf zwischen Wachen und Schlafen: der Mensch wechselte ab zwischen Zuständen, da er der Sonne ausgesetzt und ihr abgewandt war. Und so kam die Zeit heran, da der Mensch die von der Sonne beschienenen Gegenstände wahrzunehmen begann. Es regte während der Nacht die Mondenkraft das Seelenleben so an, daß der Mensch unterschied zwischen einer Zeit, da er die Außenwelt wahrnahm und einem Zustand, da er die durch den Mond wirkenden Kräfte so empfand, daß er hellseherisch wurde. Da sagte sich der Mensch, daß er durch die im Monde wohnende Geistigkeit wahrnehmen könne die geistige Welt, die durch die Kräfte des Mondes innerlich in ihn einströmte. So waren ihm die Mondenkräfte als reflektierte Sonnenkraft das, was ihm die geistige Welt vermittelte, während ihm bei Tage die Außenwelt mehr und mehr wahrnehmbar wurde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":420,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/104a/1909-05-15/p009"}],"english":["GA 104a/1909-05-15/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":420,"en_words":473,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.25,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2023,"original_word_count":1614,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"James H. 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